Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration

Investigation into the potential of low-oxygen and dry/cold storage for freshly excavated iron artifacts

Guggenheimer, Salome

Mémoire de diplôme HES : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2006.

Once archaeological iron artifacts are excavated their protective environment is lost. On exposure to the air the objects can dry out and the earthy as well as the corrosion layers become permeable due to the formation of cracks and fissures. Moisture from the air and oxygen get access to the objects. If chlorides are present in the corrosion layers and metallic iron remains in the artifact,...

Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration

Caractérisation des plaques d'identification militaires en zinc provenant du site de Carpash (Alsace, Haut-Rhin, F)

Scholl, Marie-Jeanne

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2013.

The excavation of the shelter Kilian in Carspach provides an opportunity for conservator-restorers to study the behavior of modern metals in archaeological context, through excavated artifacts, such as the identification tags. The metal undergoes, during burial, various corrosion processes, altering its original condition and weakening the object. These depend on many factors, linked not only to...

Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration

Glas- und Silberkorrosion - Untersuchung der Wechselwirkungen zwischen den Materialen einer Museumsvitrine und dem berner Silberschatz

Leuenberger, Linda

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2016.

This Bachelor Thesis is about the corrosion of glass and silver inside a display case of the Bernisches Historisches Museum. The objects exhibited in the display case belong to the Berner Silberschatz. Several objects in the display case show blueish-whitish hazes and yellowish tarnishing, which are not corresponding to typical corrosion products on silver. In addition, crystals formed on the...